Best South African Authors - April 2024

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times • USA Today • San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Esquire • Newsday • Booklist Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishab... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0399588191
• ASIN: 0399588191
• ISBN: 0399588191
• Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

The Water Dancer (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

• ASIN: B07NKMZT7T
• ASIN: B07NKMZT7T
• Manufacturer: One World

Careful of the Company You Keep

From the acclaimed author of Trouble Loves Company comes a smart, sexy, heartfelt new novel about friendship, love, lust--and a whole lot of trouble in between. After finding her husband in a compromising position, romance author Renee Moore goes back to her hometown, hoping to start over. But once again, she finds herself looking for love in all the wrong places. To make matters worse, just as she decides a healthy relationship may not be her destiny, her ex delivers shocking news that could change her life forever. Practical nurse Danielle Brooks' professional life is picture perfect, but ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 075821748X
• ASIN: 075821748X
• ISBN: 075821748X
• Brand: Brand: Kensington Books
• Manufacturer: Dafina

Black Like Me

THE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA'S SEGREGATED SOUTH“One of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down on the racial question.”—Atlanta Journal & Constitution   In the Deep South of the 1950’s, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross that line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man.   What happened to John Howard Griffi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451234219
• ASIN: 0451234219
• ISBN: 0451234219
• Brand: Mass Market Paperback
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Listening with My Heart: A story of kindness and self-compassion

Kindness matters! Especially to ourselves.We talk to kids a lot about how to be friends to others. Not much about how to be friends to themselves.  Yet, positive self-talk and self-acceptance help build emotional resilience, happiness and well-being.Along with Esperanza, your child can learn the importance of being a friend to themselves!Listening with my Heart also touches on the universal themes of friendship, empathy and kindness. Includes mindfulness and self-compassion activities.A wonderful addition to any home or school library! Free resources to accompany this book can be found at htt... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0998958034
• ASIN: 0998958034
• ISBN: 0998958034
• Manufacturer: Skinned Knee Publishing

An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR  * TIME  * BUSTLE  * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE  * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS  * AMAZON.COM OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTIONWINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2019 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE  WINNER OF THE 2019 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK—FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION“A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.” —Barack Obama “Haunting . . . Beautifully written.” —The ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1616208686
• ASIN: 1616208686
• ISBN: 1616208686
• Brand: Algonquin Books
• Manufacturer: Algonquin Books

Becoming

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1524763136
• ASIN: 1524763136
• ISBN: 1524763136
• Brand: WaterBrook Press
• Manufacturer: Crown Publishing Group

A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a surv... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0547577311
• ASIN: 0547577311
• ISBN: 0547577311
• Brand: Clarion Books
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers)

A New York Times BestsellerThe host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah, tells the story of growing up half black, half white in South Africa under and after apartheid in this young readers' adaptation of his bestselling adult memoir Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood.BORN A CRIME IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING OSCAR WINNER LUPITA NYONG'O!Trevor Noah, the funny guy who hosts The Daily Show on Comedy Central, shares his remarkable story of growing up in South Africa with a black South African mother and a white European father at a time when it was against the law fo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0525582169
• ASIN: 0525582169
• ISBN: 0525582169
• Manufacturer: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales

A cause for celebration, and a landmark work that gathers in one volume many of Africa's most cherished folktales. In these beloved stories we meet a Kenyan lion named Simba, a snake with seven heads, and tricksters from Zulu folklore; we hear the voices of the scheming hyena, and we learn from a Khoi fable how animals acquired their tails and horns. Creation myths tell us how the land, its animals, and its people all came into existence under a punishing sun or against the backdrop of a spectacularly beautiful mountain landscape. Whether warning children about the dangers of disobedience or d... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393329909
• ASIN: 0393329909
• ISBN: 0393329909
• Brand: Mandela, Nelson
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERLYNTON HISTORY PRIZE WINNERHEARTLAND AWARD WINNER DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FINALIST      NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New York Times  • USA Today • O: The Oprah Magazine • Amazon • Publishers Weekly •  Salon • Newsday  • The D... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679763880
• ASIN: 0679763880
• ISBN: 9780679763888
• Brand: Vintage Books
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies

Dick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers, Gregory is an unrelenting, lifelong activist against social injustice, whether he was marching in Selma during the Civil Rights movement or organizing student demonstrations to protest the Vietnam War, participating in rallies for Native American and feminist rights or fighting apartheid in South Africa.Known as much for his comedic achievements—as an actor, author, and social critic—as for his activism, Gregory is the forebea... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062448714
• ASIN: 0062448714
• ISBN: 0062448714
• Manufacturer: Amistad

To Kill a Mockingbird (Harperperennial Modern Classics)

• ASIN: B00K0OI42W
• ASIN: B00K0OI42W
• Manufacturer: Harper

Kindred

The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more ard... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0807083690
• UPC: 046442083690
• ASIN: 0807083690
• ISBN: 0807083690
• Brand: Butler, Octavia E.
• Manufacturer: Beacon Press

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner, now available in paperback with 7 all-new poems.Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureA President Obama "O" Book Club pickRaised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, eac... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0147515823
• ASIN: 0147515823
• ISBN: 9780147515827
• Brand: Puffin Books
• Manufacturer: Puffin Books

Born a Crime : Stories from a South African Childhood

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed NAMED ONE OF THE

• UPC: 52611618
• Rating: 4.557

Fodor's essential south africa : with the best safari destinations - paperback: 9781640970144

Everything about Africa that stirs the imagination is concentrated in its southernmost country. Lions freely roam vast game reserves such as Kruger National Park; vineyards stretch across the Cape Winelands; and mountains cascade into the

• UPC: 820127524

The Author's Guide To Self-Publishing In South Africa - eBook

This book explains what Self-Publishing is and how to do it successfully in SA.This book investigates the “why, when and how” of self-publishing and presents it as a process which has to be adhered to

• UPC: 223642918

'The Park' by James Matthews. Short stories by South African authors in the classroom - eBook

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: keine, University of Duisburg-Essen, language: English, abstract: The seminar 'Language and Literature in the New South Africa' familiarized students with a

• UPC: 819542218

OLD HENDRIKS TALES - 13 South African Folktales - eBook

Thirteen South African children's stories retold by Arthur Owen Vaughan. A GREAT READ FOR CHILDREN!In this volume you will find 13 uniquely South African folk tales. Stories of Why the Baboon has that Kink in

• UPC: 635356612

Cat Tales for Mariette : An Unexpected Friendship on the Camdeboo Plains of South Africa

Michael Brown narrates the story of a solitary author (Michael) who is coerced by a friend to visit a mutual acquaintance dying of cancer in the local hospital. Michael reluctantly agrees to visit one time.

• UPC: 52582152

Philoslothical South Africa Weekly Planner: Habit Tracker, Build Healthy Routines, Achieve Goals and Live Your Best Life

Philoslothical South Africa Weekly Planner: Habit Tracker, Build Healthy Routines, Achieve Goals and Live Your Best

• UPC: 753298871

Personnel: Randy Brecker (trumpet, flugelhorn); Maucha Adnet (vocals); David Sanborn (saxophone); David Bargeron (trombone); David Taylor (bass trombone, tuba); Keith Underwood (alto & bass flutes); Lawrence Feldman (bass flute); Bob Mintzer (bass clarinet); Gil Goldstein (accordion, keyboards); Adam Rogers (acoustic & electric guitars); Bakithi Kumalo (bass); Jonathan Joseph (drums); Cafe (percussion); Richard Sussman (programming).Principally recorded at Power Station, New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Randy Brecker.INTO THE SUN won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Performance.This disc showcases Randy Brecker's wide-ranging influences and continuing love affair with Brazilian music. Brecker and arranger Gil Goldstein brought together musicians from NY, Miami, Brazil and South Africa to form a unit which manages to maintain a spontaneous feel within some extremely challenging and modern arrangements. "Grey Area" employs the talents of guitarist Adam Rogers to give the track a hard-edged fusion sound reminiscent of early Brecker Brothers music. "The Hottest Man In Town, a recording made by Brecker's father, when the junior Brecker was only two weeks old, predicting Randy's future as an innovative jazz musican.

INTO THE SUN [RANDY BRECKER]

• UPC: 3441664

Best South African Braai Recipes (Paperback)

Books : Best South African Braai Recipes

• UPC: 839976913

South African Reminiscences : A Series of Sketches of Prominent Public Events Which Have Occurred in South Africa Within the Memory of the Author During the Forty Years Since 1854, and of the Public Men, Official and Unofficial, Who Have Taken Part in Them...

South African Reminiscences

• UPC: 442357799

Best South African Braai Recipes by Christa Kirstein (author)

• UPC: 333541037563
• Category: Non-Fiction
• Price: 9 GBP